Category: Fiction & Creative
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Translation: Only In Germany, by Fabian Wolff (Die Zeit)
I translated this remarkable essay by Fabian Wolff about being a Jew in Germany – and the attacks on Jewish pluralism in Germany from the people who claim to be the Jews’ biggest defenders.
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On Faggots and Class Struggle (Pinko)
In 1976, a conference attempted to suss out the intimate connections between social reproductive labor and faggot organizing. I introduce a troubling and remarkable excerpt from the documentation of this conference in the most recent Pinko.
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The New Queer Photography (Verlag Kettler)
This carefully researched and richly designed book, edited by Benjamin Wolbergs, introduces around 40 queer contemporary photographic positions, including those of well-established photographers as well as plenty of unknown and less well-known talent. For the book, I wrote all of the short descriptions of the photographers’ work; as well as several longer essays about documentary…
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Larry Kramer’s Great Expectations (Literary Hub)
An essay about the complicated life and written legacy of the writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer.
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Considering Garth Greenwell’s Revolutionary Erotics (Literary Hub)
An essay on Garth Greenwell’s new collection Cleanness, and the sex and politics within.
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A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna (New York Times)
Olga Neuwirth’s new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-crossing novel is the first work by a woman at the Vienna State Opera.
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‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet (New York Times)
A preview of Stockhausen’s ‘aus LICHT,’ a new production at the Holland Festival pushing the boundaries of technical and musical possibility.
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Walls Stay Down (VAN)
A review of Simon Rattle’s last concert as Music Director of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Shush Money (VAN)
On James Levine’s lawsuit against the Met and that opera house as a symbol of the rot at the heart of the oligarch-driven and star-obsessed mainstream of classical music culture.